Colostrum

Definition: Colostrum

Colostrum

Noun

1. Milky fluid secreted for the first day or two after parturition.

Etymology: Colostrum \Co*los"trum\, noun. [Latin expression, biestings.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Food & Agriculture	A specialized secretion of the mammary glands that is produced during the first few days after parturition. Source: European Union. (references)
Health	The thin, yellow, serous fluid secreted by the mammary glands during pregnancy and immediately postpartum before lactation begins. It consists of immunologically active substances, white blood cells, water, protein, fat, and carbohydrates. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Colostrum

Synonym: foremilk (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Colostrum

Specialty definitions using "colostrum": Arthritis-Encephalitis Virus, Caprine ♦ Immunity, Maternally-Acquired. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	The Colostrum Option: All the Natural Anti-Aging Growth Hormones & Immune Enhancer's Provided by Mother Nature! (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Colostrum" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Colostrum" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	16	87,710

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "colostrum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		colostrum, raamaelk, kolostrorrhoe (foremilk). (various references)

Dutch		colostrum (foremilk), biest. (various references)

French		colostrum. (various references)

German		Colostrum (foremilk), Vormilch (foremilk), Kolostrum (foremilk), Kolostralmilch (foremilk), Biestmilch (foremilk). (various references)

Greek		κολόστρον (foremilk), πρωτόγαλα (foremilk), πύαρ (foremilk). (various references)

Hebrew		חלב י� קות (breastings), חלב בוסר (breastings). (various references)

Italian		colostro (foremilk), protogala (foremilk). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		初乳 (first milk a mother breastfeeds with, foremilk). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しょにゅう (first milk a mother breastfeeds with, foremilk). (various references)

Korean		초� . (various references)

Manx		bainney nooys (first milking). (various references)

Pig Latin		olostrumcay

Portuguese		colostro (foremilk). (various references)

Spanish		colostro, calostro (foremilk). (various references)

Ukrainian		молозиво (beestings). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "colostrum": colostrums. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "colostrum" (pronounced 'Co*los"trum'): Alabastrum, Antrum, Calamistrum, Centrum, Claustrum, lustrum, Nostrum, Plectrum, Pleurocentrum, rostrum, Sequestrum, Sistrum, spectrum, tantrum, Zygantrum. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-l-m-o-o-r-s-t-u"
	-2 letters: colours, cormous, ormolus, scrotum.
	-3 letters: cloots, clours, clouts, colors, colour, comous, courts, custom, locums, locust, motors, moults, mucors, mucros, mulcts, ormolu, torous, tumors.
	-4 letters: cloot, clots, clour, clout, color, colts, cools, coots, corms, court, crust, culms, cults, curls, curst, locos, locum, locus, looms, loots, lotos, lotus, lours, louts, molto, molts, mools, moors, moots.
	Words containing the letters "c-l-m-o-o-r-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: colostrums.
	+2 letters: coulometers, multicolors.
	+3 letters: coulometries, monocultures.
	+4 letters: coterminously, thermocouples.
	+5 letters: campylotropous, conterminously, micropulsation, multiprocessor, trichotomously.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
colostrum	422	colostrum le	3
bovine colostrum	67	colostrum eczema	3
new life colostrum	28	belief colostrum	2
new zealand colostrum	21	colostrum in whats	2
pregnancy colostrum	7	colostrum organic	2
colostrum powder	7	colostrum supplement	2
colostrum benefit	6	care colostrum skin	2
colostrum microencapsulated	4	colostrum side effects	2
colostrum liquid	4	colostrum in pregnancy	2
colostrum immune tree	4	colostrum lozenges	2
article bovine colostrum	4	colostrum product	2
breast colostrum feeding	3	build colostrum muscle	2
symbiotics colostrum	3	colostrum difficile	2
colostrum leaking	3
		colostrum difficile	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Colostrum

Definition: Colostrum

Colostrum

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Specialty Definition: Colostrum

Synonym: Colostrum

Crosswords: Colostrum

Commercial Usage: Colostrum

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